Original Photographs of the Pacific Northwest

Précis

Christopher's subject is the Pacific Northwest, its people and places. The tradition of American landscape painting and photography informs his work, as well as urban reportage photography, as seen in the work of W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand and Ansel Adams. Christopher’s ranges from exploring human relationships to recording grand vistas of the Northwest's rugged Cascade and Olympic terrain. His prints are well received for their beauty and craftsmanship complimenting his choice of subject matter and strong sense of design. His work resides in corporate and private collections in the United States and Great Britain.

Education

Art, Design, and Art History, The American University, Washington DC, 1973.

Resume

Christopher began a career in Commercial and Portrait Photography in 1973. He served on staff for the City of Tacoma from 1975 to 1979 and The Washington State Legislature for 1982 to 1983. He created portraits for the Bert Perler Studio from 1973 to 1974. In 1982 Mr. Wah Lui personally hired him on the strength of his children’s photography to serve as studio photographer at Yuen Lui Studios. Beginning in 1983, Christopher fulfilled a contract to The Weyerhaeuser Company to produce aerial and site photography. Finally, he and partner Jerry Timmons established the Image Market Studio in Tacoma, offering portrait, commercial and publication photography. Christopher retired from full time commercial photography in 1989. He is married with 4 daughters.

Exhibitions

2008 International Art of Photography; San Diego Ca.

Center For Fine Art Photography; Fort Collins Co.

2006 Risk of Memory Eastshore Unitarian Church, Bellevue Wa.

Selected Landscapes Franciscan Hospice, One-person show, Tacoma.

2005 You and Me! Relationship is everything; Franciscan Hospice, One-person show, Tacoma.

Dreams of other dark things; Eastshore Unitarian Church, Bellevue Wa.

2004 Northwest Landscapes; The American Art Company, featured as one of two artists, Tacoma.

Pattern as Solitude; Eastshore Unitarian Church, Bellevue Wa.

Lighthouses of Puget Sound; Starbucks Pacific Avenue Gallery, One-person show, Tacoma

Trois Personnes, Trois Artes; Tahoma Center Gallery, Tacoma. Group multimedia exhibit.

2003 Lighthouses of Puget Sound; Handforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library, One-person show, Tacoma.

In conjunction with the publication of a field guide to the lighthouses.

Good Earth: Celebration of Life! (Group Show); Tahoma Center Gallery, Tacoma,
I acted as curator of this exhibit, which was central to a one day workshop gathering regional environmental activists and community leaders to present papers on the importance of water to the Pacific Northwest

In Our Family: Portraits of all Kinds of Families (Group Show); Eastshore Unitarian Church, Bellevue WA.

This is Group f5.6 (Group Show); Cascades Academy of Photography, an eclectic group of photographic enthusiasts, Issaquah WA.

2002 You and Me, A Photographic Interpretation of Our Human Relationships; Eastshore Unitarian Church, One-person show, Bellevue Wa.

2000 Lumen Aria: In the Key of Light; Tahoma Center Gallery, One-person show, Tacoma

1999 Guild.Com; exclusive global distribution over the World Wide Web

1997 Borders Books and Music, One-person show, Tacoma.

1996 We Believe; Tahoma Center Gallery at Catholic Community Services, One-person show, Tacoma.

1993 Handforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library, One-person show, Tacoma
featuring an ambitious display of new work examining the mystery of human relationships.

Park Bistro, One-person show, Tacoma.

American Art Company, Tacoma.

1986 Image Gallery, One-person show, Tacoma.

1984 The Downtown Gallery, One-person show, Tacoma.

Sandpiper Gallery, One-person show, Tacoma.

1983 Tacoma Art Museum, Baskin Hall, One-person show.

Canon USA Gallery, One-person show, Los Angeles CA.

1975 - 1983 Tacoma Art Museum; Annual juried show

1974 Silver Image Gallery, One-person show, Seattle/Tacoma

1973 Western Washington Fair.

1972 The American University, Washington DC

Publications

2006 cooLphoto magazine, ISSN 1558-7126; Features selected images gathered over the course of than 40 years.

2005 A Complete Guide To The Lighthouses on Puget Sound Including Admiralty Inlet Second Edition, written and photographed,
ISBN 1-4116-4186-8, available on LULU.com

2003 A Complete Guide To The Lighthouses on Puget Sound Including Admiralty Inlet First Edition, written and photographed,
ISBN 0-9744-7755-0-8

1998 CoolPhoto.Com, Online Gallery and Sales

1982 First Prize, Honored for excellence by Argus, a regional arts newspaper published in Seattle.